[postgis-users] TIGER geocoder, Ticket #1838 (new defect)

[James Marca]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:43:21PM -0700, James Marca wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 03:53:56PM -0400, Paragon Corporation wrote:
> > Correct.  It's just with loading tabblock data which isn't used in Geocoder.
> > I don't have it used in any function at the moment actually though its a
> > table a couple of people asked for for stats 
> > which is why we included it.
> >  
> > anyrate just fixed the issue for tiger_2011 (distributed with PostGIS 2.1)
> > and will have fixed for tiger_2010 (distributed with PostGIS 2.0) soon as
> > well
> 
> Awesome.  But...now I hit a new problem
> 
> NOTICE:  INSERT INTO tiger_data.ca_tabblock(the_geom,intptlon,intptlat,awater,aland,funcstat,uace,ur,mtfcc,name,tabblock_id,countyfp,statefp) SELECT the_geom,intptlon,intptlat,awate;
> ERROR:  value too long for type character varying(15)
> CONTEXT:  SQL statement "INSERT INTO tiger_data.ca_tabblock(the_geom,intptlon,intptlat,awater,aland,funcstat,uace,ur,mtfcc,name,tabblock_id,countyfp,statefp) SELECT the_geom,intptlo"
> PL/pgSQL function "loader_load_staged_data" line 24 at EXECUTE statement
> 
> 
> I am processing California.
> 
> I will add the -e flag to the psql command to see what is too long .

I think the issue is tiger_staging.ca_tabblock.gid is
character_varying(16), while tiger.tabblock.tabblock_id is character
varying(15).  There are 343 entries in tiger_staging.ca_tabblock with
gid length of 16, all the rest are 15.

Is it okay to just change tabblock_id to varchar(16)?

Regards, 

James
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